Harrow.



L. E. WATERMAN.

HARROW. APPLICAHON FILED DEC. 26 19 12.

Patented May 4, 1915.

flffzzesses:

LEWIS E. WATERMAN,

sra'rns PA ormcn,

ILLINOIS.

HAnRow.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1915.

Application filed December 26, 1912. Serial No. 738,734.

T all wkomtt may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS E. WVATERMAN, a citizen of the United States, residingat Rockford, in the county of l/Vinnebago and the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful-Improvements in Harrows, of which the following is a specification,

The object of this invention is to provlde an improved construction of harrow and more particularly to provide an improved method of operating the several gangs in a harrow of the type as described in my patent for harrows, No. 984,625, dated Feb. 21, 1911.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved harrow showing the gan s on one side thereof shifted to an ang e oblique tothe line of draft. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the side of the harrow with the gangs parallel, a portion of the forward disk being broken away to show the pivotal connection of its gng '1 A triangular frame comprises the rearbar 1, the diagonally arranged side-bars 2, the side-bars braced by the bar 3 and links 4, and having a bracket 5 connecting their forward ends and serving as means to which draft is applied to the harrow. The seat support 6 carrying seat 7 is supported by the rear-bar 1.

Front and rear gangs are carried by each of theside-bars Q and are of duplicate construction. The front angle-supports 8 are ivotally supported near their inner ends By brackets 9 which are secured to the sidebars 2 near the front portion thereof, and

' the rear angle-supports 10 are pivotally supported near their outer ends by the brackets 11 which are secured to the sidebars2 -to the rear portion thereof. Suitably mounted and carried by the anglesupports 8 and 10 are earth agitating means, having here shown a plurality of rotary disks 12, suitably spaced.

The diagonally arranged connecting-bars 13 are pivotally connected by brackets 14 to the front angle-supports 8 at a point to the outer side of the pivotal supports thcrcof, and the oppositeends of the connectingbars are pivotally connected by brackets 15;"

to the rear angle-supports 10 at point to the inner side of the pivotal supports thereof, the connecting-bars 13, when the gangs are at right angles to the line of draft, lying of the hand-levers.

substantially at right angles to the side bars 2 as is shown clearly in Fig. 1.

Toothcd-segments 16 are bolted to the side-bars at 17, are braced by the bar 18, and form the pivotal support for the handlevers 19 which are provided with the usual thumb and he toothed-segments. .iave a hooked pivotal connectionfll with the connecting-bars 13, and an adjustable pivotal connection 22 with the lower end This adjustable connection is to allow the gangs to be swung at various angles to the line of draft. With the gangs all lying parallel and at right angles to the line of draft, by actuating levers 19, the several gangs are swung on their respective axis, through the medium of links 20 and connecting-bars 13, the disks of the front gangs pointing inward and those of the rear gangs pointing outward Connecting-links 20 as is illustrated on one side of the harrowin Fig. 1, and for the purpose of reharrowing the ground and leaving it in a; smooth and level condition.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination of a frame having 01 iiocxronn, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR 'I'O EMERSON- dog connections for engaging diagonally al'ranged side sections, front and rear earth agitating devices pivotally connected to the side sections at diagonally opposite ends of the devices, bars connecting said devices at the inner side of the pivots of the rear devices and at'theouter sides of the pivots of the front devices, notched segments carried by said side sections at points intermediate the devices, levers pivotcd to the segments and having a dog en-' gagement therewith, and links connecting the lovers and said connecting bars, the actuation of said levers being adapted to swing the devices to positions at an angle to the line of draft.

2. An earth. agitating device comprising a draft member, a pair of frame members connected thereto and diverging rearwardly therefrom, a transverse frame member connecting the rear portions of said diverging frame members, a pair of earth agitating gangs pivotally connected to each of said diverging side members, each pair of gangs being arranged to comprise forward and rcar gangs with therear gangs pivotally attgched at their outer ends and the for ward gangs pivotally attached at their inner ends tothediverging frame members, means connecting the inner and outer of the rear and forward gangs respectively for swin ing the gangs on their axes, and a seater cerrie by the frame.

3. In a tande 1 barrow, the combination ,of a draft member, a pair of frame members connected thereto and diverging rearwardly therefrom, a. transverse frame member connecting the rear ends of said divergin frame members, a pair of harrowin togls arrengedin tandem relation at eac side of the barrow and each pivotally connected to a divergingly extending frame member, the rear harrowing tools being pivotnlly connected at their outer ends and the front harrowing tools at their inner r fii'ardly' or reerwardly trainee iny hand inpresence of two subscribing wit- 'nesses.

LEWIS E. WATERMAN. j Witnesses:

JOHN F. MCGANNA, Jr., E. E'. N. BEHEI'Q. 

